How to Know if Mobile Commerce is Right for You

| Ian MacDonald

Read any etailing trade publication or talk with any marketing consultant and you will quickly believe that you need a mobile website, yesterday. But not every retailer will benefit from a mobile site. Here is an example of how a mobile-optimized website was awesome at one company and simply not needed at another.

Hurricane Irene Not a Boon for Online Mattress Sales

| Tim Parry

As retailers release August sales figures today and say Hurricane Irene helped give them an ecommerce sales boost, at least one merchant says the storm that rocked the Atlantic coast this weekend caused a huge drop in traffic.

Testing your SEO

| Stephan Spencer

Search engine optimization is more science than art. As with any scientific discipline, SEO needs to be done with rigor. The results need to be reproducible.

USPS: QR Code Promotion a Success

| Jim Tierney

Nearly one third of all Standard Mail in the past two months contained a QR code, thanks to a U.S. Postal Service summer promotion that ends today, according to Tom Foti, the agency

A Look At Competitive Price Intelligence

| MCM staff

Retailers, competitors and customers need a clear picture of the competitive pricing landscape and comprise a triangle of pricing transparency. With comparisons on products and services now available round the clock, seasoned online shoppers have clear visibility to volumes of pricing data.